AI Guide

Getting Started

Welcome!

We recognize that navigating AI can be overwhelming. Media reporting on AI is often dramatized and incorrect—even respectable publications can misrepresent the power or promise of AI. 

This guide is meant to provide an introduction to the current AI tools that are relevant for use in educational settings, and to demystify some of the hype surrounding AI. It will help you consider whether you might integrate AI into your teaching, and how to do so responsibly. 

Don’t underestimate your capacity to understand AI concepts and bring value to these conversations. Now more than ever, the world needs insights from those in the humanities and the arts. You don’t need to know everything about AI to consider how AI tools might be thought-provoking, beneficial, or detrimental in your classroom.  

This guide includes three parts:

  1. AI Starter: Designed as a primer for anyone who’s new to using AI tools, the starter introduces AI concepts, capabilities and limitations, suggests classroom policies, and more.
  2. Explore LLMs: This is an opportunity to play and experiment with large language models. First, we’ll walk you through a guided tutorial of ChatGPT and show you how to use LLMs responsibly. Then, you’ll be able to see how OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude react to the same prompts.
  3. Resources: Here we provide you with some extra material to help you dive deeper into learning about AI. We share some resources we’ve put together, including a sample AI Code of Conduct and a brief review of current AI & academic integrity literature, plus a ton of other external resources that you may find useful.
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